Credit distribution

Credit distribution for cohort 2019 and onwards

  New
4 year degree
Advanced
standing I
Advanced
standing II
Gateway education      
  Distributional area requirements / College-specified courses 21 12 9
  English 6 6 3
  Chinese civilisation - History and philosophy 3 3 0
College requirement 6 6 0
Programme requirement      
  Foundation-year courses 1 6 3 0
  Core: Major 18 18 18
  Capstone experience 6 6 6
  Core: Stream 12 12 12
  Electives: Stream 15 15 15
Minor or free electives 27 9 0
Total no. of credit units      
  Minimum 120 90 63
  Maximum 144 114 84

1. Students of second major and students changed to the Major will follow the Advanced Standing I curriculum and will be required to take one designated Foundation-year course, i.e. EN2722 (3 credit units) (only applicable to normative 4-year degree students and students admitted with Advanced Standing I). ASII students will be exempted from the Foundation-year courses.